I Only Tried to Seduce the Villainess Sister Who Was Supposed to Kill Me - Chapter 73

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73.

After learning that our hearts were the same, Theor launched an unrestrained affectionate offensive toward me.

Lloyd and Greim, who had been dumbfounded at how that cold and chilly Theor could change so much, eventually seemed to give up and looked on with glazed eyes at Theor’s affectionate offensive toward me.

“Just in case, I think it would be good to put up barriers around the villages near Failun Village and Hombogal Village too.”

Since the Demon God appeared early, there would surely be changing parts, so I said it seemed like being careful in various ways wouldn’t hurt.

Perioze’s Sister and Lloyd also nodded, saying they were concerned about the surroundings.

“But I heard that nobles wanting to purchase Demorga are overflowing right now.”

Lloyd continued with a question about whether we would use the Demorga that Theor and I had tamed not just for exhibition situations but as transportation for the Empire’s citizens.

I nodded and said.

“If possible, I’d like commoners, not just nobles, to use Demorga as transportation. The Empire’s land is too vast, and in this vast land, the only means of transportation are carriages and ships.”

I said that if not only nobles but also commoners could easily travel long distances, information about agriculture and fishing from each village could be easily obtained, which would surely greatly help the Empire’s future prosperity.

“Of course, citizens of the Empire who haven’t adapted to that creature like me would find even getting on it difficult, but currently, we can’t think of any monster transportation other than Demorga.”

Flying-type monsters that could carry people were extremely limited in size, so there was no answer other than Demorga.

And since there were already horses optimized as transportation, it would be unnecessary to specifically choose four-legged beast-type monsters as transportation.

“Then, how about seriously breeding Demorga?”

My eyes widened at Lloyd’s words.

“We can’t keep catching Demorga from the Forest of Monsters, brainwashing them, and riding them forever.”

“This is something His Majesty and I discussed yesterday and came up with – if we want to steadily establish monsters as transportation in the future, we can’t have me with darkness attributes or Elinea with dark magic brainwash them every time.”

He said that especially since attribute abilities aren’t passed down through generations, and cases where they appear in one generation but not in the next generation’s children are frequent, we need to tame Demorga so they can carry humans on their own without brainwashing them with dark magic.

“But if taming monsters was easy, wouldn’t they have already tamed monsters in the past?”

At my words that theory might be possible but practice would be impossibly difficult, Lloyd nodded once and said.

“Of course it would be difficult to tame them normally. But can’t the darkness attributes you and Theor possess brainwash monsters? Using that principle, if brainwashed monsters have offspring, and those offspring have offspring, wouldn’t the brainwashing continue even in the distant future when you two are gone?”

“We need to confirm whether brainwashing transfers to later generations first, but since brainwashing itself corresponds to magical imprinting, there’s a high possibility that the imprint will be inherited through breeding between brainwashed Demorga. If that works, Demorga will be widely used as the Empire’s transportation without us having to intervene individually.”

“Hmm, if that happens… But if you two have already finished discussing this, don’t you not really need my opinion? I have no particular intention to oppose it since it would be good for the Empire to have transportation.”

When I shrugged once and spoke, Lloyd shook his head a few times, saying that wasn’t why he brought it up.

“The important thing is which family will do the breeding.”

“…Pardon?”

“I’d like to handle it myself if I could be greedy, but since you and Theor are the ones with brainwashing abilities, one of your two families will have to start breeding Demorga.”

Lloyd, who added that once Demorga breeding started, tremendous wealth that couldn’t be converted to value would come in, told Theor to try starting it, but Theor immediately refused, saying that was something he needed to discuss with me.

“How on earth did you cook and boil this guy who doesn’t care about anyone else at all, Countess? If you tell me the secret, I could use it handily when I’m in a hurry.”

When I turned my head sharply to look at Theor at Lloyd’s words, Theor was looking at me with eyes like a dog looking at its owner.

No, this wasn’t the kind of character he was supposed to be…

At some point, the sharp, cold-blooded gaze had disappeared.

“Or how about giving me the breeding rights and you two just receive the money that comes in?”

But seeing Theor immediately show Lloyd a sharp glare at his words, I thought that his original cool and cold image hadn’t completely disappeared.

So it was a feeling of being gentle only toward me.

Just having that thought made my face burn hot.

I really need to do something about this burning up at any time – it really blazes up as if something’s broken.

“Don’t say such nonsense. You know better than anyone how much trouble would arise if transportation fell into the hands of the royal family.”

“It’s a joke, a joke. Really, I can’t even joke in front of this guy.”

Lloyd said to me, narrowing his eyes.

Then Perioze’s Sister, who was sitting next to me, elegantly lifted her teacup and countered Lloyd.

“I’ve always told you, Your Highness. Only make jokes that can be clearly distinguished from serious talk.”

At Perioze’s Sister’s words, Lloyd pouted slightly and complained that it was unfair since it was a joke mixed with seriousness.

Somehow it feels like Lloyd can’t do anything against our sister?

Since Perioze’s Sister’s love didn’t bear fruit in the original work, I had thought it would be nice if they definitely got together in reality.

Of course, because of the part where Caroline and Lloyd got together in the original work, some sense of debt and subtle sorry feelings remained toward Caroline.

And I also worried whether those two might be attracted to each other.

Anyway, since a person’s heart isn’t something others can change, I was just standing on Perioze’s Sister’s side and only doing what I could help to make her love come true, and because of that, I committed the selfish act of deliberately trying to pair Caroline with Greim, so I always felt only sorry toward her.

“Anyway, I’ll do whatever Elinea wants.”

Theor said, looking at me.

“Ah…”

Honestly, if I took responsibility for breeding Demorga, I’d have to pay a lot of attention and work would increase, but the profits coming in would be tremendous.

Moreover, if it was a family that monopolized the Empire’s transportation, that influence would also be tremendous.

I could definitely end up holding the Empire’s actual lifeline.

That’s probably why Lloyd, who would ascend to the throne, was also eyeing it.

Theor was trying to leave such tremendous power to my choice.

I looked at such a Theor and pondered what to do.

But that pondering didn’t last particularly long.

“Let’s do it as a partnership.”

At my words, not only Theor but also Lloyd, Perioze’s Sister, Caroline, and Greim’s eyes widened.

“Since we’re partnering anyway, let’s all partner together, everyone here. Theor and I can handle brainwashing the Demogal, and Perioze’s Sister and Your Highness can lend land to breed the Demogal. And Caroline and Greim can handle distributing the bred Demorga.”

I said that Greim, who would become the next High Priest, would be good at distributing to commoners coming to the Imperial Shrine, and Caroline’s family, which does maritime business, could also handle distribution widely, so it would be good.

Of course, even though we divided each person’s tasks like that, I also said that in the end, all six of us would have to help together with both breeding and distribution.

At my words, Lloyd readily nodded and said.

“That way, no single family would monopolize it, and the Imperial Court wouldn’t make a fuss over distribution rights for transportation.”

“Right?”

When I smiled brightly at Lloyd’s words, Theor suddenly extended his hand to me and said.

“May I have your hand?”

When I extended my hand with a puzzled face to him who suddenly asked for my hand, he took my hand and kissed the back of it.

When I blushed deeply with an expression asking why he was suddenly doing this, Theor smiled so brightly it was dazzling and said to me.

“I thought I couldn’t fall for you any more than this, but I’ve fallen for you again, Elinea.”

Whoosh.

At those words, my face blazed frighteningly.

Lloyd slightly frowned as if he found such Theor and me disagreeable, and Perioze’s Sister and Caroline looked at us with pleased smiles.

Greim, who clearly seemed to have no interest in us, looked like he was pondering something about my words.

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